Teixeira made his opening greeting before he was arraigned Monday on two counts of murder for the horrific killings of Drs. Lina Bolanos, 38, and Richard Field, 49, in their $1.9 million South Boston penthouse condo May 5.

Teixeira is accused of slitting their throats after gaining entry to their apartment.

Teixeira, appearing unconcerned, pleaded not guilty to murder charges, as well as to armed robbery, home invasion and kidnapping by confinement.

Teixeira, 30, "of Chelsea," is an immigrant by way of Guinea-Bissau, where he was born, and Cape Verde, where he lived. He is a slight man, probably about 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing about 150 pounds.

How one small man, armed with a knife and two fake guns, could have overpowered the two adults, especially the rugged looking Field, tied them up with duct tape, and then knifed them to death, remains a mystery -- unless he had help.

He was wounded twice by police gunfire when he was captured at the condo along with a backpack with Bolanos' jewelry inside. Teixeira told the cops there was another gunman in the condo, but they did not find anyone.

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Since then no mention has been made of any alleged accomplice, either by the police or by Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney John Pappas at Monday's arraignment.

Nor was any mention made in court of what message Teixeira wrote on the wall in the victims' blood, as initially reported.

"Both individuals were bound apparently at various times by various means," Pappas told the court. "They both sustained massive trauma."

It is possible that Bolanos could have been killed first. According to Pappas, Teixeira briefly worked at the Macallen Building, site of the condo, as a concierge in 2016. He gained entry to the building through the garage at 4 p.m. Bolanos returned to the apartment at 5 p.m.

Pappas said the victims were found not in the same room but in separate areas of the condo, which suggests that Bolanos could have been assaulted and tied up before Field was attacked.

Field did not come home until after 6 p.m. Field at one point texted a friend to call the police, which the friend did. The cops arrived at around 8:30 and confronted Teixeira and the horrible murder scene.

Why Field did not tap in 911 himself is only one of many unanswered questions in this unusual case. Was there a second gunman? How could one man hold victims at knifepoint while peeling off duct tape, a task that takes two hands? How could one man tie up two people? What did he write on the wall?

Teixeira is not talking, of course, and neither is the district attorney.

Teixeira in court not only seemed to have recovered from his gun wounds but appeared to have gained weight, no doubt a result of jailhouse food.

That's good because, hopefully, he will be eating it for the rest of his life if, as expected, he is found guilty of the two murders.

But you never know.

Teixeira never should have been in the country in the first place. Had Teixeira, a green card holder since 2010, been deported, when he should have been, following conviction of previous crimes, the two doctors would be alive today.

But Teixeira was given a pass when he was allowed to plea bargain down two 2016 unarmed bank robbery charges that allowed him to keep his green card and avoid deportation. Nine months later he was out in the street planning the savage killings he is charged with.

That arrangement was worked out between defense attorneys and prosecutors from the Office of Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley and Boston Municipal Court Judge Lisa Anne Grant.

Now, ironically, it is Conley's office that is again prosecuting Teixeira, this time on murder charges. Maybe Conley will get it right this time around. Judge Lisa Anne Grant will not preside.

Meanwhile, Teixiera, sporting new eyeglasses, appeared to have enjoyed the court limelight. He swayed and laughed when the murder charges were read.

He glanced around the courtroom but avoided looking at the two dead doctors' weeping friends and relatives sitting in the front row.

Teixiera should be happy. He will get his wish to stay in America, albeit behind bars, for life.

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